I do not want to start a discussion about eSport games in general and, briefly, there is no doubt that Racing is still a “small thing” in eSports nowadays... Ask CS, WC3 or WoW players about it and you will get answers like: “booooring”, “race....what?” or probably “Mario Kart rawks!!!”

Anyway... lately, we added our new Trackmania player 'gaLLo', a super-friendly and super-fast guy and I’m glad to have him in our line-up. We are going to have a lot fun on and off-track!

Racing is sooo multivalent as there are games like Live for Speed, RACE07, rFactor or iRacing and on the other hand Need for Speed, Trackmania or even Mario Kart. But no different computer games, like the simulations, are connecting reallife and “eSports” that much! You can find famous active reallife racers (actually former Fomula One) playing these games competitively or even as training for their real races.

It is really admirable!!!

Arcade racing, though, is good fun! Trackmania is the best example and turned into an upcoming eSport title in the last years. But also all other racing games have some really good tournaments and competition. Even though they are not involved in eSport that much... but.. i mean, you were able to win like more than a handful cars in the last three years and...

only a few in the eSports community even noticed… which, in my opinion, is a pity!

Nevertheless.. I’m looking forward to up-and-coming weeks. I won’t reveal much, but there are big things coming up and… I hope more people will notice and realize that even racing games (no matter which one) are famous, competitive and not only a “small thing”.

Stay tuned and feel free to comment what you do think about "Racing Games"!

You cannot really generalize that in my opinion ... I played both, shooters (RtCW, ET, Q4) and arcade racing (NfS, TMN), and pretty much the same effort was required in order to grow strong in those games. The only difference I felt was that while in NfS and TMN almost everybody knew me, in RtCW, ET and Q4 it was just the higher ranked players ... this issue is probably related to the size of the respective scene. You "simply" have to find the genre that suits you most and stick to it in order to become successful in a game ... =)

Thanks Danny by the way for mentioning me in a very positive way - I also appreciate being in this friendly squad and I hope I can live up to the expectations :)

Trackmania is a cool game. I personally don't like games that mimic real sports too much, like simulator games e.g. or football games like PES. But trackmania has a unique style that appeals to me and we also got a couple of really good Swedish trackmania players which makes it more interesting ofc :D

only looks like!!! ;P hehe
well..., it probably even is!
I mean our generation grew up with the phenomenon called Michael Schumacher and racing was and still is very popular over here! Nordschleife, Porsche, BMW or even Sebastian Vettel are racing-related trademarks for Germany. But there is also an international competition like in any other game/genre and Roland Ehnström from Sweden isn't Virtual Racing Touring Car Champion without cause!

Great blog Mr.Engels!
You are right. The community is not that big as in CS,WC3 or WoW. I noticed it myself when i started playing LfS 4 months ago, but hey it doesn't matter when you enjoy the game.
I hope for the racing community that there'll be a few big and great tournaments in the future!